Nigel Waterson was the Conservative Member of Parliament for Eastbourne from 1992 until 2010.
13 Facts About Nigel Waterson
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Nigel Waterson has been the chairman of the Equity Release Council since 2012.
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Nigel Waterson attended Leeds Grammar School and at The Queen's College, Oxford he read law, graduating with a BA in 1971.
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Nigel Waterson became a barrister and founded the firm Waterson Hicks.
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Nigel Waterson was the Shadow Minister for Pensions and Conservative Spokesman for Older People.
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Nigel Waterson is a patron of many local charities, including President of the Eastbourne Constitutional Club and Vice President for Age Concern - Eastbourne.
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Nigel Waterson lost his seat to the Liberal Democrat Stephen Lloyd in the 2010 general election.
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Nigel Waterson lost this case on appeal in 2013, after winning the initial High Court case in 2011.
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Nigel Waterson had two previous marriages, both ending in divorce, and has a son and a daughter.
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On 29 January 2008, Nigel Waterson was arrested for allegedly assaulting his two teenage children.
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In January 2019 his adopted son, Stephen Nigel Waterson, was put on trial accused of manslaughter by crushing his girlfriend's son with his electric car seat.
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Nigel Waterson was accused of intimidating the driver of the car.
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Nigel Waterson's girlfriend was found guilty of child cruelty in May 2019, and sentenced to two and a half years in prison, but the jury failed to reach a verdict on Stephen Waterson.